dr. fauciod to be with you. fernando: sir, what would you say is the state of the zika at break here in the united states? is this something that worries you? dr. fauci: well, we have in the united states what we call travel-related cases, maybe people who have gone to the infected region in south america, central america, the caribbean, have gotten infected and came back to the united states and developed the illness in the united states. we call that travel related cases. we have over 400 of those already in the united states. what we don't have is local transition -- transmission, people who get infected in brazil or puerto rico and come to the continental united states and get bitten by a mosquito, and then that mosquito transmits it to someone in the continental united states who never left the united states. that's called local transition -- transmission. we have not seen that yet. we would not be surprised if we see that within a reasonable time. fernando: is this a disease you have some

dr. fauci concerned. the issue with this patient is that the bacteria that she has, that she has been infected with, was e. coli that possessed this 1articular gene, called mcr- which imparts on the bacteria the ability to resist an important drug. as you mentioned, she did not necessarily need the drug. her that. was sensitive to other drugs. the fact that this gene is in bacteria which is now in this country is important. when that happens, sooner or later you know that it will happen again. it may be associated with a bacteria that is resistant to everything else. resistant bacteria continues spreading, what does that mean in terms of future illnesses like pneumonia or other common infections? dr. fauci: i don't know if it will have a major impact on common infections, but it is something to be concerned about and we should do something about . the issue is if it spreads into the kinds of infections that are fundamentally resistant and need this drug, colistin. the drug in question the gene

we're joined by the director of the national institute of allergy and disease, dr. fauci. d our own chief health expert, dr. richard besser. thank you both for joining us. dr. fauci, let me begin with you. where do we stand with the virus? what kind of spread are we looking for in the summer? >> we certainly have a significant number of travel-related cases right now in the continental united states. well over 500. and we have several hundred what we call locally transmitted cases in the caribbean in the sense of american territories. particularly puerto rico. so we already have zika in the united states. it's travel-related. the concern is we'll have local transmission. people getting infected in the united states but who have never left the continental united states. we fully expect that that will happen as we get to the more robust mosquito season in the next month or so. the question is, we need to be prepared for that. make sure that those local outbreaks don't become sustained and don't become disseminated. that's the reason why we need to have a very, very forceful p

>> well there, is a real fight over funding and dr. fauci said it was not a request for $1.9 billion from the president, but that it was needed and so what borrowing money from other funds like the ebola fund and using it for this, but at some point the piper will ask to be paid and they'll need the money. consumer reports has come out with research with what we can do as consumers when we're worried about the mosquitos that carry the virus and they're saying sprays are more effective than using the lotions and we should use the labels and look for a couple of things and maybe it has deet which has shown to be effective to a chemical ingredient that is also effective and orange of oil eucalyptus which is effective. one of the things they looked at was for pregnant mothers who were concerned about using the chemicals when they're pregnant and maybe that would affect their pregnancies and the studies suggest and so do the medical authorities that the chemical allowed to be used are indeed not harmful to a mother those natural items, some of th

dr. fauci, thank you for being with us.latest numbers that we have seen have over 500 people in the united states with zika but these are all travel-related cases or sexual transmission from people who have travelled. you caught a lot of headlines this week when you pointed out you wouldn't be surprised in the next month or so to see actual transmission cases in the continental united states. could you tell us where we stand right now and what the risk is. >> well, historically in the past, when we have dealt with infections that were similar to zika, infections like dengue and chikungunya, that are transmitted by exactly the same mosquito that transmits zika, we have ultimately, particularly during the robust mosquito season, have seen local transmitted cases. that's the reason i said and others have said that we're fairly certain -- you can never be 100%, but we're fairly certain that, as we get more mosquito activity, particularly in the southeastern part of the country along the gulf coast, florida and texas, that have

dr. andre anthony fauci of the national institutes of health. >> we will see other outbreaks. i remember at the end of the curve of the ebola outbreak, i was on many programs with the press talking about the inevitability of our seeing another emerging infectious disease outbreak and unfortunately it was present because on the tail of ebola came zika outbreak. tbheed to be prepared as a global community. we live in a global community. the borders don't mean anything when you're dealing with merging and reemerging infectious diseases and need to be dealt with differently. >> ian: all this when we continue. >> rose: >> rose: funding for "charlie rose" has been provided by the following: captioning sponsored by rose communications from our studios in new york city, this is charlie rose. >> hunt: i'm al hunt from "bloomberg view" filling in for charlie rose. president obama was the first sitting president to visit hiroshima, japan. he revolution and a world without nuclear weapons. >> we may not be able to eliminate man's capacity to do evil, so nations and the alliances we formed

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dr. take yfauci has said compet bills in congress don't allocate enough money to combat the disease. faucid begin to carry and transmit the disease in the next month. today's heating comes as a group of senators raises concerns about the safety of american athletes at the summer olympics in rio. 11 senators sent a letter to the u.s. olympic committee yesterday asking what steps it's taking to protect athletes against the virus. >>> in news for your health, more americans are kicking their smoking habits faster than ever before. the rate of smoking amonged a adulted dropped to 15% last year. a new government report out says smoking rate only drops one point or less per year. centers for disease control is not sure why the drop was so large. >>> a new study into infant sleep may help new parents get a little extra sleep. research shows that letting infants cry themselves to sleep may not give them emotional or behavioral problems as once believed. it found that they would fall asleep on average 13 minutes sooner and it did not change stress levels results. always hard do. i was a wimp when t

dr. fauci has said competing bills in congress don't allocate enough money. fauci also says mosquitos in the u.s. could begin to water and transmit tc carry and transmit the disease in the next month. >>> a couple knows it's only a matter of time that they will need life saving help, so they are putting up signs like thoo all over town. pamela is hoping to find a kidney donor on her own before her kidney disease progresses. her husband says he will be with her through her personal crusade. >> i love my wife. i really want to see her healthy. her energy levels are low right now. she's always tired. and i hate to see her like that. >> the united network for organ sharing says pamela's situation is far from unusual. pamela is among 122,000 people waiting for organ 100,000 including pamela need a kidney. she says she started out with 100 signs and thousand only has ten signs left to put up. no one has called yet, but she won't give up hope. >> it's debilitating to have to go through the treatments year after year. in and what can you do but wait and hope somethin

. >> dr. fauci, we just saw the president.he house republicans are arguing of money left over from the battle against the ebola virus. what is wrong with that argument? >> well, that is a spurious argument. we're not finished with ebola. we may not see it in the front pages of the nooup. the major outbreak is not there anymore. we have the danger of the cropping up of ebola. we have seen over the last several weeks, cases far down the pike transmitted. we can't take our eye off ebola. that would be robbing peter to pay paul. >> you're seeing some concern that this may be overhyped. 5,000 cases here in the u.s. what do you say to those that say the zika threat is also overhyped? >> when there's a new outbreak, you to go all in. because you don't know in the it's easy to get money and resources in the midst of something like ebola. when it's panicking the entire world. preparing for something so you can try to cut back on that, if you're successful, people say you overhyped the situation. and if you're not, they say, why weren't

and dr. fauci, head of the institute on infectious diseases and virology at n.i.h., who we turn to on so many occasions, has also said it. so every public health entity has validated that this is a serious public health crisis. but we can prevent its dire consequences. we can, through action, particularly related to mosquito control and working with pregnant women or women of child-bearing age, we can deal with this. this is not some unknown disease that suddenly would be arriving on our shores for which we would have no knowledge and no tools. these are basic public health tools related to controlling mosquito control and helping women of child-bearing age. if we refuse to act, this will be a self-inflicted wound on our own people. and the consequences are dire. for those who care about children, i'm sure we've already seen what has happened south of the border with little children being born with microcephaly. my gosh, it is heartbreaking. it is heartbreaking for that little child with the limite

dr. anthony fauci. tony's a giant in the field, so i can't tell you how nervous i was to hear him say, quote -- we can't pretend to know everything we need to know about zika, end quote. we're grateful, again, to jason bobian, npr's correspond for moderating for such an important conversation. we hope it can be a wake-up call for this town, especially for those folks one mile away on capitol hill. the senate and house have passed different zika funding packages. they have done something, but now they have to hold a conference to bridge the gap between the two measures. i really can't imagine that congress is so busy that it could find time for this priority. i don't know when they'll conference, but tonight wouldn't be soon enough. in the meantime, please join me in welcoming our distinguished panel. >> thank you all for coming day. i hope it's just a conversation among us, and we'll get to the q&a afterwards. we'll pass a microphone around and get to some of the questions you guys have. susan, i'm goin

frieden or dr. fauci or any of our nation's leading scientists or medical experts who all say that what is going on here today is grossly inadequate, my friends on the other side of the aisle seem to think they know more than our scientists and medical experts. at these they have convinced themselves they know more. well, they haven't convinced me and they haven't convinced the majority of the american people who are watching this and in disbelief. i mean, this is an emergency. this is a crisis. why aren't we acting more aggressively? i want to ask unanimous consent to insert in the congressional record a letter to congress from the director of the office of management and budget and our national security advisor in which they talk about the importance of multiyear funding , long-term funding because they have multiyear commitments that they need to make to the private sector in order to prioritize zika, in order to develop vaccines and other preventions to protect the american people. the speaker pro tem

frieden or dr. fauci or any of our nation's leading scientists or medical experts who all say that what is going on here today is grossly inadequate, my friends on the other side of the aisle seem to think they know more than our scientists and medical experts. at these they have convinced themselves they know more. well, they haven't convinced me and they haven't convinced the majority of the american people who are watching this and in disbelief. i mean, this is an emergency. this is a crisis. why aren't we acting more aggressively? i want to ask unanimous consent to insert in the congressional record a letter to congress from the director of the office of management and budget and our national security advisor in which they talk about the importance of multiyear funding , long-term funding because they have multiyear commitments that they need to make to the private sector in order to prioritize zika, in order to develop vaccines and other preventions to protect the american people. the speaker pro tem

dr. anna andrew fe fauci, who hs been at the four front of all of these dread things we've had in recent decades -- he was the leading advocate scientifically on the aids epidemic that we had, here's what he said. "when you get an emergency situation, you really need to get funding as quickly as possible." well, the time to act is now. this summer when zika is on the news every day -- which it will be -- senators will regret that they did not act quickly to address this crisis. so i urge my colleagues to take care of this today, to provide $1.9 billion in emergency money, just as we would do with one of the other national emergencies we've taken care of number united states times and do it in a way that will get the known them the quickest. so, mr. president, i would ask unanimous consent that the senate proceed to the consideration of calendar number 157, h.r. 3038, that all after the enacting clause be stricken, that the nelson substitute amendment to enhance a federal response and preparedness with respect to the zika virus which is at the desk be agreed to, that thereby up to an hour

dr. anthony fauci is detailing how u.s. officials will manage the spread of the disease. here it is. anxiety over the virus is, of course, growing. the centers for disease control says it's monitoring 279 pregnant women infected with zika. those cases are all travel related. but experts say with mosquito season upon us, that will likely change. zika has been linked with severe birth defects. >> and golf star rory mcilroy said he's concerned about the zika virus as he gets ready to go for the gold at the rio olympics. he'll represent ireland as golf becomes an olympic sport for the first time since 1904. the 27-year-old says he and his fiancee may start a family in the next couple years. >> during his trip to vietnam, president obama told business leaders there that the new trans-pacific partnership would boost their country's economy and help improve the human rights record. the president made those remarks during a speech to a gathering of a civil society in hanoi. that trade deal is currently stalled in congress and is opposed by the leading presidential candidates. president obama

dr. anthony fauci of the nih says that's the problem in brazil.razil, it's going to be winter there when the olympics hit. the chances are you're going to see a lot less of zika there than people are worried about. >> but is the threat really to the pregnant women alone? i mean should the olympics be canceled, postponed, moved? because of all this? >> i absolutely do not think that the olympics should be canceled, postponed or moved. because 80% of the time when people get zika, they don't even get sick. there's been some reports of side effects to adults, this is not a huge problem for adults, it's a problem for pregnant women and unborn children. so people traveling to brazil, there should be a travel advisory, pregnant women or women of child-bearing years should be questioned at the airport. it would be an enormal travesty to cancel the games. the area where is zika is emerging, indonesia, australia, africa, it's already there. it's no going to spread there from brazil and here,i not going to spread from brazil, either. we've had dengue fever

let's bring in dr. fauci, thank you so much for being here.th the world health organization's decision? >> i do agree with the w.h.o. you don't want to be calf lee, and don't want to underplay it, but based on this evidence. the real issue is affecting pregnant women. to get them to not go to the regions where there is local outbreaks, and in this case brazil. it's a relatively mild disease. it can be in certain circumstances sexually transmitted to people who go there and come back to live need to take the appropriation guidelines. >> well, your opinion seems to be at odds with 100 other promise didn't doctors and professionals. let me read to you what they believe. attend the game potentially acquire that strain and return home to place where is it can be endemic. basically half a million people will go there. they might be able to contract the virus and then go home. do these doctors have a point? >> with all due respect, i dug great. with one looks at the hemisphere put the olympics aside, before the olympics and after the olympics per yea

dr. tony fauci, and doctor tom fountain, two leading doctors. this should be beyond politics. political dispute. the baby whose will have zika caused microcephaly are not democrats or republican. they're just babies and we need to step in to protect these pregnant mothers and their children now. >> you, of course, were the ebola czar and ebola scared the heck out of people. it just sounded like the most hideous thing you could ever contract. does zika scare you as much? >> well, you know, they're very different diseases. ebola obviously could be fatal in a broad population. but we're worried about what zika is with just pregnant women and the babes they are going to have, but it does scare me. at the peak, three or four cases of ebola in the united states. we already have hundreds of cases of zika in the united states and local transmission hasn't started. the experts say that as summer arrives and our mosquitoes get active, particularly in the southeastern and southern united states, we are going to see this disease actually being spread in america. people getting it in the u

dr. anthony fauci on all of that.igures to deal with this, hundreds of billions of dollars what are they going to do? is it coordinate efforts, what? >> well, the president asked for $1.9 billion for the effort of the united states, multiple departments, predominantly hhs, but also other agencies of the government to address this problem, this threat both in south america, the caribbean, puerto rico, which is a united states territory and the threats to the continental united states. so the total amount that was asked for is $1.9 billion, and that is the discussion going on in congress of how much, and if so, how are you going to do it? will it be emergency fund? will it be regular appropriation? that is the discussion currently going on. neil: i heard, maybe misspoken at a press conference they talked about a global effort on the part of every one even know not affected by zika virus to pitch in, hence the earlier figure i mentioned. are we behind the curve on this? are you worried that we are, what? >> i don't think

frieden or dr. fauci or any of our nation's leading scientists or medical experts who all say that what is going on here today is grossly inadequate, my friends on the other side of the aisle seem to think they know more than our scientists and medical experts. at these they have convinced themselves they know more. well, they haven't convinced me and they haven't convinced the majority of the american people who are watching this and in disbelief. i mean, this is an emergency. this is a crisis. why aren't we acting more aggressively? i want to ask unanimous consent to insert in the congressional record a letter to congress from the director of the office of management and budget and our national security advisor in which they talk about the importance of multiyear funding , long-term funding because they have multiyear commitments that they need to make to the private sector in order to prioritize zika, in order to develop vaccines and other preventions to protect the american people. the speaker pro tem